Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Business
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Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
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Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
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I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...
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Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties.
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A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a poet, for he is actuated by pure love. Who can predict his comings and goings? His business calls him out at all hours, even when doctors sleep.
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A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts.
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All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.
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Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.
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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
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It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
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